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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complete reorganization. Getting rid of FSO test. [/quote]

Wonder if they are going to do what Congressman Wayne Hays tried to do in the 70s and make all State employees be part of the FS?[/quote]

They want to do hiring based on “charisma” and ideological agreement with POTUS’s foreign policy agenda. Not a joke.

Of course, [b]what happens when a POTUS changes and staff no longer align[/b]? [/quote]

So the State Dept staff should [i]only[/i] allign with democrat administrations? I mean, I realize that’s been the defacto standard until now, but why should it be? [/quote]

You have this backwards. The FSO is neutral and career. Trump is the one creating the loyalty tests, not democrats or liberals.[/quote]

Agree but realistically, Statw skews very li real (and I am a liberal).[/quote]

It's called self-selection. MAGAs are too selfish for things like the Peace Corps, which along with Vets and college international relations majors, forms the cornerstone of State Department employees.

So, I guess we just end soft power and diplomacy all together then.[/quote]

+1. and I hate to say it, MAGAs are less educated. We know that education correlates strongly to voting patterns. Even the top MAGAs are not the best and brightest - I always noticed how Vought menos from OPM during Trump I were written like a Sixth grader and full of errors.

as well - there is an inherently liberalizing impact of living abroad and learning a second language, which all FSOs have done or aspire to do. [/quote]

Hopefully, elitist snobs like you won't be representing our country in any meaningful capacity anywhere. [/quote]

So it is better to have people who don't have the training or speak the language handling these matters?[/quote]

You are kidding yourself if you think only Democrats have the needed education and training, as well as fluency in more than one language.[/quote]

Well … what’s stopping all those Republican kids from applying to the foreign service? I have zero issues with that - the exam is politically neutral. [/quote]

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